Acumen Academy is a school for social change. The institution teaches most of their programmes online. They are calling for applications to their yearly East Africa Fellowship. The institution also have several other programmes for the rest of the world (West Africa included). However, the call for application for entry into those other fellowships has ended. You will be updated once the call for applicatons from your regions open for their yearly programme. You can apply for this fellowship and reap the benefits while still being employed. It is not a full time fellowship. Fellows only have to come together for a few times during the programme.
Programme Benefits
All expenses related to the fellowship which includes feeding, transportation fares, food, visa issuance fees and lodging expenses will be funded by the organization. Fellows will aslo learn the following skills and qualities during the programme:
- Adaptive Leadership: Based on Ron Heifetz’s work, Adaptive Leadership is a practical leadership framework that supports Fellows’ ability to catalyse and embrace the gradual and meaningful process of creating change.
- Authentic Voice: Grounded in Marshall Ganz’s life’s work, the Authentic Voice curriculum allows the Fellows to develop the capacity to articulate a hopeful vision, speak across lines of difference, and move others into action.
- Good Society Readings: Modeled off The Aspen Institute, the Good Society Readings explore the meaning of a just society, and the moral and historical foundation of social change through text based dialogue
- Managing Polarities: Based on Barry Johnson’s work, Polarities aims to cultivate an individual’s ability to lead effectively when opposing but interdependent and equally important values are in tension.
- Systems Thinking: Fellows explore the concept of Systems Thinking by working collaboratively on live challenges—enabling them to better understand larger, systemic problems and design more effective interventions.
Institution
Acumen Academy
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Available Programmes
Fellowship
Length of Programme
The fellowship will only last for 24 days. However, fellows won’t spend 24 days in a row in the fellowship. They come together for four mandatory seminars, each lasting for 6 days which makes it a total of 24 days for the fellowship.
Number of Awards
20 fellows will be chosen for the programme
Eligibility
Applicants for this fellowship are expected to have the following attributes prior to applying:
- They must be entrepreneurs
- They also need to be intrapreneurs tackling poverty or injustice
- Applicants need to be organizational builders
Entry Requirements
This can be found during application.
How To Apply
Application for this fellowship has already started and it is done online. To apply, sign up on Acumen website and follow the preceeding instructions for application.
Application Deadline
4 January 2021
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